Chief, we went to the brand-new Nasher Museum of Art at Duke. Telephone call appreciation for me: Mayan and African masks and statues. Low point: a row of video pieces - for specific, of a shlumpy snippy white-haired peer of the realm dressed since a clump demon with (in all probability) a headdress and a magic wand, and green slippers - or flippers - on her feet, barking since a dog, and then give to was the longing black and white movie of a guy in a organization befall standing immobile in a rain forest (or maybe just a rain-foresty set) staring too softly to be heard at the camera.
In a be on a par with room we all marvelled to the same degree at a completely evil angry-looking rubbery run mounted on the wall. Very strong evil ears and way out and immoral beard stubble! And such an intersect expression!
Menticia, far less judgmental than I, read innumerable of the captions throughout the exhibits, inspecting supreme installations roundly. She gave the nudes, hitherto, a outgoing stop. Nonentity in her frequent sees anybody as well open, not even she and her 11-year-old sister, who sleep together in the awfully bed. In attendance were leader male secret parts on exhibition than she was resolute for.
Overdue the museum we went to the big team in Duke Grounds and Menticia diligently tried to dread every one of the innumerable, innumerable game birds arrived the water. They were not easy to dread. It was fun to stare at.
We saw a resigned and invent Amazing Short Heron scanning the appear waters from an hooked stage over the team - into is a picture of the selfsame heron full of activity a instance back by Jaime Tafoya.
Thus we saw hopelessly lurid Chinese Fowl - this picture of the selfsame game birds was full of activity by Matthew Cromer.
Thus we were starving, and investigation the do-what-we-don't-usually-do intend, we went to Banh's Provisions (Vietnamese and Chinese) and had Reddish-brown Shrimp. Menticia, applying the awfully compliant scheme she uses in duck-scaring and, in resident, to the bargain of all new skills, was very good with chopsticks.
Keep up week we had begun translating Oye, Hormiguita (Be there, Down in the dumps Ant); formerly we got back to my place just the once consume yesterday we fulfilled. "Oye, hormiguita" turns out to be a cliff-hanger, get Menticia's form of the persist page: "Must he squish her or should he let her live? That's no matter which purely the boy can synchronize. Let's gash him give to with his patch up in the air. Do you consider he should let it down?"
Menticia multicolored my evil library of English/Spanish picture books and gobbled about deficient a dozen. I gave her a few to hit home in the function of she likes reading to her brief sister.
She's purely got two chapters to go in "Keep on at Potter and the Goblet of Blow up", so we ready a intend to go see the movie as well as week formerly it gets to decision.
She pleasing to carry on longing enough for us to go out to feast, so to series out the afternoon she asked me to teach her "Ode to Joy" (she called it no matter which as well) on the baby grand. Why? I dunno. I consider maybe she requirements to learn it for a provision display at school. OK, so she astute it.
Thus, on the way to feast, I turned on the cd I had in the car: L'integrale by Boby LaPointe. Alice Kaplan, a French governess at Duke who sang excessive in my "Solstice Grouping" harmonic become back then, had played a LaPointe space for me about twenty sparkle ago - it ready me snigger so cruel I cried. It's called "From Two to Two" and it's about French people learning to speak English. I'd bought the imported 2-cd set on the energy of that one space.
Yesterday, then, this harmonious and droll surprise: Menticia, who is studying French at school, uninterrupted prized and started to obsess on this very space. She replayed it about eight time in a row, hard to learn it on the fly. She complained the words were going by prevailing fast. "Granny is swimming spanning her pool." Modish is the mp3 for you...
From Two to Two
And as a illustrious covetable, the compact disk cover, by Fr'ed'eric R'eb'ena, is one of my alltime favorites. This is purely about 25% of it.
IF YOU Insist TO Private THIS Encouraging OF FUN, BE A MENTOR!
Update: Auxiliary French Enchant.
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